The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
Four Common Characteristics that Build Trust on Teams
Building trust is not just about external factors, but also about introspection and personal contributions. To establish trust, we need to recognize our positive and negative behaviors. Four key characteristics foster trust: boundaries, reliability, integrity, and generosity. It’s important to reflect on our Strengths and areas for growth in these areas, as trust is a personal and ongoing journey.
Inside the Mind of a Leader: A Talk with Former US Bank VP Bob Erickson
Leadership Development often takes a one-size-fits-all approach, overlooking individual nuances. Merely being skilled doesn’t equate to effective leadership. Traditional training, like conferences and generic courses, misses the mark. Bob Erickson, retired EVP of US Bank, highlights the importance of a tailored, human-centric leadership model, emphasizing key traits to foster empowered, cohesive teams.
How The Best Leaders Master The Art Of Authentic Care
Our latest podcast episode explores how the best leaders express authentic care to those on their team. We delve into genuine care beyond obligations, share stories of everyday heroes embodying this virtue, and discuss the impact of receiving care on a leader’s ability. Curious about bridging the intention-perception gap in caring? We also share examples and give practical strategies on cultivating and effectively communicating authentic care. This episode will be helpful for anyone eager to enhance their leadership skills and help their team succeed!
How Leaders Can Prioritize Self-Care in a Fast-Paced World
In our fast-paced world, where political divides, global challenges, and tribal mindsets often consume our thoughts, it’s easy to overlook the fundamental need for self-care and emotional well-being. This blog post delves into the profound practice of answering three simple yet transformative questions: What brings you happiness and joy? What are you grateful for? Who and what do you love? These questions, explored through the lens of mindfulness and positive psychology, are not just a luxury but a vital act of self-preservation and leadership. They enhance positive emotions, promote gratitude, and nurture social connections. The post highlights practical applications, such as daily journaling and mindful conversations, to help individuals navigate life’s complexities, strengthen their mental and emotional health, and contribute to a more compassionate and connected society. Learn more!
The Impact of Trust on Personal and Professional Dynamics
Trust is complex. Sometimes it comes easy, sometimes not so much. It can be delicate, fragile, or in some cases nearly indestructible. But what makes certain people trust more easily than others? And what even is trust to begin with. In this post, we’ll explore trust, a vital element of team health, by examining personal trust patterns, preferences, reasons, and methods. Our goal is to help you in forming your unique definition of trust.
Three Ways Strengths Can Help You Deal with Setbacks
In this episode, Melissa Hiatt and I explore the idea of setbacks and what, if anything, our Strengths can do to help us get through them. Setbacks are part of life; how can we lean into them and perhaps get something out of the experience? How can we use everything that happens to us as an opportunity to practice using our Strengths, to practice being resilient, or to even practice self-compassion?
Understanding Behavior-Based Strengths
In this episode, we talk about our behavior-based approach to Clifton Strengths. We discuss why we’ve taken this approach, define what a behavior-based approach is, and also share some examples and provide insight for how you might be able to take your own behavior-based approach in understanding your Strengths. Whether you’re learning about your Strengths or helping others on their Strengths journey, this approach is effective for the interpretation and application of Strengths. Enjoy!
Watch the Strengths Communicator Training Webinar
In this episode, we share a replay of our Strengths Communicator Training Webinar. Brian and Linda go over some of the basics of the training, Strengths, and Leadership Vision. It’s a very brief snapshot into our larger training and a great way to dip in your toes to see if you want to take the next step on your Strengths journey. Enjoy!
Take a Deep Dive into Strengths with the Strengths Communicator Training
In this episode, you get to hear a conversation with Brian Peters about his experience going through our Strengths Communicator Training. We talk about how he got into the training, how he’s using the information he learned, and a little bit about what might be interesting to you as you consider enrolling in our next training.
Join us for Our Next Strengths Communicator Training
In this episode, we announce our next Strengths Communicator Training in Rochester, Minnesota on June 29th and 30th of 2022. This three-day in-person training is designed to help anyone enhance their skills in order to help others and ultimately yourself understand the unique behaviors of Strengths.
What Insight do Strengths Give to Goal Setting?
In this episode, Amy and Nathan discuss some basic thoughts related to goal setting and Strengths. They share some personal examples and stories of how our own understanding of Strengths helps us on this journey as well as examples of leadership, family, life, parenthood, and all kinds of other things. Enjoy!
The 7 Signs of Team Health
In this episode, we discuss the seven elements of team health. We actually recorded this episode back in 2019, but the content has never been more relevant. After conducting a series of team engagement interviews, we have identified seven things that are consistent signs of healthy teams. In our discussion, we explore the seven elements of team health as well as multiple examples to help you begin identifying the health of your team. Enjoy!
3 Essential Things for Tackling the Needs of Your Team
Every team that has ever existed has been presented with some sort of challenge. In fact, some people might argue that the sole purpose of a team is to tackle problems and overcome challenges. While there are many great resources on how to build a successful team, we think there are really only three essential elements for teams to tackle problems and thrive. In this episode, we discuss how to embrace compassion, courage, and connection to build successful teams. We also share a few tips for implementing these essential things on your team.
Are Your Team Building Efforts Effective?
Whether you’re a team leader or a team member, you can probably list lots of examples of team building activities that have been completely worthless or a waste of time. Before you invest one more dollar into any sort of team building activity this year, there are a couple of things we want you to make sure are included. If you find yourself constantly pounding your head against that proverbial wall in frustration, there might be a couple of things that you’re missing.
In this episode, we share some simple things that will help you invest in better team building this year, and hopefully avoid wasting all of our time.
How to Give & Receive Feedback
Giving and receiving feedback can often be the catalyst to create long-lasting, sustainable change in attitude and disposition within an organization or culture. In this episode, we discuss how leaders can prepare to give and receive feedback, as well as the five norms of giving and receiving feedback to others. Enjoy!
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